Executive Leadership Team
View Staff Directory2025 Board of Directors
Greg Long, Chair
Retired, Long, Cook & Samsa, Inc.
Teri Lash-Ritter, Vice Chair
Cleveland Clinic Akron General
Doug Grassian, Secretary
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Dan Brophy, Treasurer
Huntington Private Bank
Daniel R. Flowers, President & CEO
Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank
Lisa Backlin, Parts Town
Amy Borcherding, The J.M. Smucker Co.
Rob Bowers, Westfield
Alison Breaux, Summit County Court of Common Pleas
Jerod Cherry, ESPN Cleveland
Rich Clark, GOJO Industries, Inc.
Jason Dodson, Roetzel & Andress
Amanda Graaf-Kurta, Giant Eagle
Nancy Hutchinson, Sherwin-Williams
Terry Link, Seaman Corporation
Amanda Montgomery, Materion
Hyun Park, FirstEnergy Corp.
Alicia Pucky, Fresh Mark Inc.
Laura Query, Nationwide
John Szarka, The Timken Company
Jonathan Thornton, Whitaker House Publishing
Endowment Board of Directors
Harvey Nelson, Chair
Main Street Gourmet
Mark Baer, Vice Chair
Retired
Vi Leggett, Treasurer
Aultman Foundation
David Kern, Secretary
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLC
George Sarkis
Roetzel & Andress
Gary Benz
Norfolk Consulting Group
Cheryl Venarge
APV Engineered Coatings
Daniel R. Flowers, President & CEO
Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank